Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
Do you need to view the temp files on your system? At Start menu, run, simply type %temp% This will open Windows Explorer to this location: C:DOCUME~1USERNA~1LOCALS~1Temp, where USERNA is your Windows account name, in 8.3 … [Continue reading]
When you press Alt+Tab you may see one or more generic windows titled "CDTNoteSite" and are unable to bring these windows into focus. Selecting one appears to do noting. If you look in Task Manager, you don't see a file running by this or a similar … [Continue reading]
Does it annoy you when Windows installs an Automatic update that requires a restart when you are busy doing something and don't want to restart immediately but can only 'sleep' it for a few minutes, before the annoying alert comes up again? If so, … [Continue reading]
When Internet Explorer is configured to use Protected Zones, you can not print pages to PDF's using Acrobat's PDF printer. Instead, you'll get an error similar to this one: D:Documentswebpage.pdf You don’t have … [Continue reading]
Type (or paste) the shell command in the Start Search or into the Run dialog (Start Menu, Programs, Accessories) and press Enter. If Windows Explorer is already open, you can type the command in the address bar and press Enter. The most … [Continue reading]
Vista's User Access Control is annoying, especially when you are installing new software or tweaking hardware settings. you can disable it completely in User Accounts or set a local security policy which disables it for Control panel access … [Continue reading]
Windows2000 and Millennium Places bar information here Office 2000 users information here In Office 2000, you needed to either edit the registry or use a utility to change the places bar and could not do it on the fly. The places bar was limited … [Continue reading]
Traditional Home Network Typically, home networks were set up with one computer controlling access to the internet, either using NAT or proxy software. It works great, except for the other computers to have internet access, the workstation … [Continue reading]
Update July 31 2012: The Shared Data plan voids my update from 2/2008. :) The VZW software required to use the MiFi tethered sets up a modem with the #777 phone number, so that number is apparently still valid and the username and password is still … [Continue reading]
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